831 research outputs found
HyperGUI: Webapp for Hyperspectral Image I/O
No full text<p>Co-Author: Sharon M. O'Rourke <a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a></p>
“This is your life you have to live with the memories”: Older migrant women’s reflections on living with the past
No full textMemories collected across the life-course often inform our sense of who we are and what is important to us, as we grow older. This article draws on the findings of two qualitative life-history research projects that set out to explore older UK migrant women’s quality of life across the life course. It has two main aims. One aim is to contribute to existing theorizations of social memory. Another aim is to show the extent to which migrant women’s memories of life-altering events influence their satisfaction with life as they grow older. The article concludes by arguing for an approach to the study of ageing that is sensitive to the impact of memories on our experiences of growing older
Toxicological profile for disulfoton
No full textPrepared by Research Triangle Institute under contract no. 205-93-0606.Chemical manager(s)/author(s): Nickolette Roney, Sharon Wilbur.Includes bibliographical references: p. 183-206.205-93-060
Empathy and transformation in organic inquiry: sharing research in partnership with spirit
No full text[Extract] Our narrative as authors begins with a location of ourselves in relationship to one another. The first author, Sharon, is a PhD graduate who was delighted to happen upon Organic Inquiry. This little-known qualitative methodology is a deeply connected, transformative and liberating qualitative methodology that can provoke researchers to attune to others' lived experiences through their common humanity and their own narrative. Sharon was surprised how beautifully Organic Inquiry fitted with her PhD research topic on the 'Spirituality of menstruation and birth'. The above quote from an interview transcript captures a moment in one participant's unfolding story of witnessing the spirituality of birth. The second author, Susan, the primary PhD supervisor, is a committed qualitative researcher who held some scepticism about this little-known methodology. Both authors grew to appreciate the intense, embodied, transformative capacity of Organic Inquiry and the key role of empathic relationships in the rigour and transformative potential of this methodology. Equally, the research participants reported on its powerful transformative qualities. Organic Inquiry is not known widely, and therefore some historical context is needed
"Transmuting sorrow": earth, epitaph, and Wordsworth's nineteenth-century readers
No full textThis study examines the ways in which nineteenth-century readers experienced Wordsworth's poetry as wisdom literature--ways of reading the poetry which have been largely lost in the twenty-first century. Considered as disciples, these men and women of letters had lifelong relationships with the poet and poetry which paralleled Wordsworth's own ritual of returning to the text and to the consecrated place in nature. By examining the reading practices of these Wordsworthians in the light of interpretive methods dating back to monastic readers, I show how such practices went hand in glove with the poet’s epitaphic aesthetic.
Wordsworth's theory of poetry derives from his "Essays Upon Epitaphs" which privilege the sympathetic relationship of the epitaph writer to the deceased and to the mourning survivors. I trace the evolution of this aesthetic in Wordsworth's poetry through his autobiographical poem, The Prelude, considered as the poet's own epitaph, and through his turn to the frugality and rigid lines of the sonnet as the form most conducive to fulfilling his prophetic duty in later years. I follow this aesthetic as poetic persona and readers enact the sincerity between epitaph writer and mourners in a mutually sympathetic relationship. This bond between writer and reader assisted in transforming suffering into an attractive if unattainable ideal which yet inspired readers to social duty. I use psychoanalytic theory to show how the persona modeled the "transmutation" of sorrow for readers by ordering the mind and cultivating self-forgiveness by means of this ideal.
The ritual of reading and revising sorrows which incorporated the persona’s mental discipline importantly depended on the "counter-spirit" or deconstructive quality inherent in language which has its analogue in the cycles of renovation and decay in nature. This instability of language contributed to an ambiguity at the heart of Wordsworth's poetry which opened up a range of possible interpretations. Depending on the individual, such ambiguity made it possible for nineteenth-century readers to apply the poetry to their lives methodically, both as an aid to mourning and to religious reflection.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-295)by Sharon McGrad
Toxicological profile for formaldehyde
No full text"Draft for Public Comment."Prepared by Research Triangle Institute under Contract No. 205-93-0606 to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Service, Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. Chemical manager(s)/author(s): Sharon Wilbur, M. Olivia Harris, Peter R. McClure, Wayne SpooIncludes bibliographical references (p. 343-416).205-93-060
Carbon monoxide
No full textChemical manager(s)/author(s): Sharon Wilbur, Malcolm Williams, Robert Williams, Franco Scinicariello, Division of Toxicology and Human Health Sciences (proposed), Atlanta, GA; Julie M. Klotzbach, Gary L. Diamond, Mario Citra, SRC, Inc., North Syracuse, NY.Includes index.Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-301)
Chromium
No full textIncludes bibliographical references (p. 427-496) and index.Chemical manager(s)/author(s): Sharon Wilbur, Henry Abadin, Mike Fay, Dianyi Yu, Brian Tencza, ATSDR, Division of Toxicology and Human Health Sciences (proposed), Atlanta, GA; Lisa Ingerman, Julie Klotzbach, Shelly James, SRC, Inc., North Syracuse, NY
Tracking academic regional workforce retention through author affiliation data
No full textAcademic mobility is considered a standard requirement for the development and progression of an academic research career. However, this career mobility is at odds with the drive to recruit and retain professionally-qualified workers in regional Australia, to ensure future generations of regional Australians have capacity to access higher education in their home region. To date, little work has been completed regarding the retention of active research staff in regional Australia. The purpose of this paper is twofold: to determine the viability of using author affiliation data as listed on publications to track an institutional cohort of authors by their affiliation; also, to determine if data analysed using this method revealed any insights regarding the retention of academic staff. Whilst using author affiliation data was found to be viable, it required extensive data manipulation and cleansing. Once analysed, the data revealed intriguing insights into the retention and movement of active academic researchers. Implications for regional higher education will be discussed
Reclaiming rural character: conservation, conflict, and the nostalgic landscapes of Orcas Island, Washington
No full textThis dissertation takes an ethnographic approach to examining the meanings of rural character on Orcas Island, in San Juan County, Washington. In spite of the challenges facing productive agriculture in the county, achieving rural character remains the stated goal of county planning efforts, environmental groups, affordable housing advocates, and private landowners. Drawing from the anthropology of landscape, political ecology, and critical readings of memory and history, this project examines the definitions of rurality in a place where farming and other types of labor have been overshadowed by real estate speculation and tourism. More broadly, this work argues that land management is a highly subjective process that engages aesthetic preferences, popular ecological models, cultural conceptions of property, and concerns with labor and affordability. In particular, looking at conservation easements can highlight the ways in which nostalgic longings for particular landscapes can be elevated to the level of political economic conflict, in which only certain individuals are able to shape the land according to personally or culturally shared visions.Ph.D.Includes bibliographical references (p. 272-284)by Sharon L. Baskind-Win
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